FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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“To take arms against a sea of troubles”
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“To be, or not to be”
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“A slave that is not twentieth part of the tithe”
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“Se, what a grace was seated on his brow”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet uses hyperbole extensively in his famous ‘’To be, or not to be” soliloquy to describe his frustration with life as he contemplates suicide. In Act 3 Scene 1, he contemplates whether it is ‘’nobler” to bear the ‘’slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles.
Detailed explanation-2: -"To be, or not to be” is the opening phrase of a speech given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called “nunnery scene” of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1. In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and suicide, weighing the pain and unfairness of life against the alternative, which might be worse.
Detailed explanation-3: -The soliloquy is essentially all about life and death: “To be or not to be” means “To live or not to live” (or “To live or to die"). Hamlet discusses how painful and miserable human life is, and how death (specifically suicide) would be preferable, would it not be for the fearful uncertainty of what comes after death.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hyperbole: “I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers / Could not, with all their quantity of love, / Make up my sum.